This Is A Book Quotes

I like you and your book, ingenious Hone! In whose capacious all-embracing leaves The very marrow of tradition 's shown; And all that history, much that fiction weaves.

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

Books which are no books.

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.

I was also an Action Comic fan when I was a young kid and those comic books affected me and Superman is - he's the one. He's the first one. He's the one. He's the one everybody is always compared to.

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies.

One of the most modern pretenders to inspiration is the Book of Mormon. I could not blame you should you laugh outright while I read aloud a page from that farrago.

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.

The one thing that does happen, every time, though, is that I never get to write a book until I've already been thinking about it for a period of months to years.

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

Book depository is nothing new; there've been outlets selling books internationally via mail order for many decades - the only change is that it's now easier to find and use such services.

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

The word book acted as a transient stimulus

You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.

I think you’re never the same person when you close a book as when you open one; it changes your life very subtly.

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

If you ask me, Now, is it your best book? I would say, I don't really know. I wouldn't even want to say. And I'd even go on and say, I don't even think so.

An actors real job is going on lots of auditions! When you book the job that's the fun part!

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.

My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.'

My goal is to create a book where the entire book-text, pictures, shape of book-work together to create the theme. The placement of images and text on the page is crucial for me.

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

Learn how to cook. Read books that will educate you. Get an education. Get a career. And support yourself. And live in a section of town that isn't conducive to violence.

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

Most books fail, not so much from a want of ability in their authors, as from an absence in their productions of a thorough development of their ability.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Books are embalmed minds.

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.